PlayOnTV app 📺

SmartTV application that allows you to play on TV video from your favorite browser. Used with PlayOnTV server.

Try it out

Step 1: run local server at port 8080 with command:

npx github:htmlhero/playontv-server --port 8080

Step 2: send test video data with command:

curl -G 'http://localhost:8080/setVideo' --data-urlencode 'title=Big Buck Bunny' --data-urlencode 'url=http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4'

Step 3: open application demo in browser. Take a look at the demo page, the video is playing!

Usage

Start server

The easiest way to start the server is run npx github:htmlhero/playontv-server --port 8080 on local/remote machine. You can configure port as you need. After start, in the output you will see the server address, it will come in handy later.

Build and start app

Then you should build PlayOnTV application with configured server address. Follow this instruction. After that start the app.

Send data

Last step — send data to your server. There are several ways to do it. For example, data sending snippet can looks like one of this:

Bookmarklet

javascript:(() => {
	const serverUrl = 'http://192.168.1.2:8080';
	const videoUrl = prompt('Paste video URL');
	const src = new URL(serverUrl);
	src.pathname = 'setVideo';
	src.searchParams.set('url', videoUrl);
	new Image().src = src.href;
})();

Terminal

curl -G 'http://192.168.1.2:8080/setVideo' --data-urlencode 'url=http://example.com/video.mp4'

You can choose your own way to send data using HTTP API.

Watch video

If all previous steps done right, video should start to play on TV. Relax and enjoy it 🍿

Contributing

You can add support for another SmartTV platforms from list.

License

Project licensed under MIT licence. Please read LICENSE file.